General Manager, Redditch Site

The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership across a multi-functional organization including Integrated Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Business Development, Finance, Human Resources, and customer-facing functions. This is an opportunity to lead a critical aerospace and defense site that develops and delivers advanced technologies for some of the world's most demanding applications. 

Key Responsibilities 

Business Ownership 

• Own the overall Redditch site strategy, business performance, operating plan, growth agenda, and profitability. 

• Lead the site as a full business, connecting customer needs, engineering capability, operational execution, and financial performance. 

• Drive commercial growth, strengthen customer relationships, and represent Redditch with customers, partners, government stakeholders, and Honeywell leadership. 

• Make effective strategic and operational decisions that improve competitiveness, resilience, and long-term value creation. 

Safety 

• Build and sustain a safety-first culture where employee wellbeing and risk awareness are embedded in daily leadership. 

• Ensure compliance with all health, safety, environmental, site security, and regulatory requirements. 

• Drive proactive risk reduction, continuous improvement, and visible leadership engagement across the site. 

Quality 

• Champion a culture of quality, compliance, and customer confidence aligned to aerospace and defense expectations. 

• Ensure strong quality management systems, robust corrective actions, and disciplined execution across product and process quality. 

• Drive root-cause problem solving and continuous improvement to prevent recurrence and improve customer outcomes. 

Delivery 

• Lead the site to meet customer commitments through strong integrated planning, manufacturing execution, and cross-functional alignment. 

• Improve on-time delivery, responsiveness, and operational flow across value streams and support functions. 

• Partner with supply chain, engineering, quality, and customer teams to remove barriers and improve execution. 

Cost Efficiency 

• Deliver financial commitments through disciplined cost management, productivity, resource allocation, and working capital performance. 

• Identify and execute improvement opportunities that strengthen productivity, asset utilization, and business competitiveness. 

• Balance near-term performance with strategic investments that support growth and capability development. 

People and Culture 

• Build, develop, and empower a high-performing site leadership team. 

• Strengthen employee engagement, talent development, succession planning, accountability, and organizational effectiveness. 

• Foster an inclusive culture built on collaboration, ownership, innovation, and continuous learning. 

Qualifications and Experience 

Required 

• Significant leadership experience in the Aerospace or Defense industry. 

• Proven experience in general management, business leadership, site leadership, or senior functional leadership. 

• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional teams in a manufacturing, engineering, or advanced technology environment. 

• Strong understanding of operational excellence, integrated supply chain, engineering, quality systems, customer delivery, and financial management. 

• Experience managing customer relationships, influencing senior stakeholders, and delivering business growth. 

• Excellent communication, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills. 

• Ability to operate strategically while maintaining strong operational discipline and performance accountability. 

Preferred 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or a related discipline. 

• Advanced degree such as an MBA or master's degree. 

• Experience leading in a regulated aerospace, defense, space, or advanced technology manufacturing environment. 

• Experience with government, military, or defense programs. 

What Success Looks Like 

• Outstanding Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost Efficiency, and People performance. 

• Strong customer confidence and improved business performance. 

• A capable, engaged, and accountable workforce with a strong leadership bench. 

• A clear growth agenda supported by operational excellence and engineering capability. 

• A Redditch site positioned as a benchmark operation within Honeywell Aerospace Technologies.